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▸ noun: A small piece of stone, a pebble.
▸ noun: A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
▸ noun: (British) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
▸ noun: (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
▸ noun: (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
▸ noun: (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
▸ noun: A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
▸ noun: (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
▸ noun: A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A testicle.
▸ noun: (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
▸ verb: (transitive) To wall with stones.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
▸ verb: (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
▸ adjective: Constructed of stone.
▸ adjective: Having the appearance of stone.
▸ adjective: Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
▸ adjective: (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
▸ adjective: (LGBT, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
▸ adverb: As a stone (used with following adjective).
▸ adverb: (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
▸ noun: (countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
▸ noun: (countable) A male given name
▸ noun: A placename:
▸ noun: A locale in England:
▸ noun: A village in Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7811).
▸ noun: A village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6895).
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Maltby parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5589).
▸ noun: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).
▸ noun: A locale in the United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in California.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Indiana.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
▸ noun: Ellipsis of Stone County. [One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Mountain View. It was named after natural stone formations.]
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